JP Construction/ John Milucky

In a county (Sullivan) where construction quality standards are notoriously low, prices ridiculously high, and contractors routinely don’t finish on time (or at all)... this guy sets a new standard for awful. He also works with a guy named Bob Wayne, who is equally if not more incompetent, half assed, and apathetic. I hired JP construction/ John Milucky to expand my small barn in 2016. Aside from never having completed the job but having all the money (for which I tried taking him to small claims court until it became so hard to file a claim in the town where he does business that I gave up... probably not a coincidence that the town justice has the same last name), the litany of corner cutting, garbage construction techniques, and out right incompetence has cost me thousands of additional dollars in repairs from other contractors and time I’ve had to spend doing the work myself that I paid good money for a contractor to do. A list of problems and corner cutting includes: - Windows: all six of the windows he installed had no sill flashing or silicone around the frame to seal and protect them from moisture incursion. Additionally, he installed replacement windows in areas of new construction and did it so poorly that you could see out of the barn interior to the outside through a quarter inch gap at the top of the window. His solution for all of this was to go long after the fact and smear some silicone on the outside of the windows. Truly pathetic. I had to pull the trim and properly reinstall every one of the windows myself. - Front door: because of the need to build up the floor and height of the interior loft, I specified an outswing door for the front door. This guy ordered an in swing door and installed it as an outswing door. It’s also not a weatherproof door or frame and has caused me to have to make several time consuming modifications (cutting out parts of the frame and replacing them with silicone, flashing the entire edge of the door, etc). Additionally, they misinstalled the door frame so the door doesn’t close tight with the frame and leaves about an inch gap at the top. - Exterior measurements: he mismeasured the length needed to symmetrically expand the shed into a barn. Consequently, he had to pour a second run of concrete about a foot and a half wide, which is now not connected to the main slab. And he still didn’t get the length right so the whole barn is lopsided with the side he added on being shorter then the existing side and the roof lines not matching. - False beams: he installed false beams on the outside of the expansion to match the beams sticking out of the existing structure. However, because he mismeasured the whole thing those false beams are not level with the existing structure and, worst of all, they were never sealed against the building and angle back into the building, creating a pathway for moisture Siding: I paid a lot of money to have high quality steel panels used for siding - but because these guys miss measured, the amount of leftover material (which I paid for) could have cited an entire other side of the barn. Also, instead of using proper metal J channel on the outside they bent aluminum trim coil to approximate J channel but it is incredibly flimsy and only single bent in many areas (and looks terrible). - Double doors: I had a set of double doors on the existing structure that had two hinges at the top of each door to keep those doors from sagging. They removed the doors when they installed the new siding but only reinstalled one set of hinges at the top of each door... so now guess what’s happening. Roof peak: even though I specified that I was going to construct a Cathedral ceiling (which requires ridge venting at the peak, and soffit venting at the base) these guys closed the roof peak with both plywood and metal (except for about a foot long section on the west end where they simply mismeasured). I now have to hire another builder to go back on the roof, remove the ridge cap, cut open the roof peak, and reinstall with a ridge vent. I’ve also got to go drill holes into the north side where the roof meets the siding and install soffit vent. - Miscellaneous: in general, there was just a massive amount of corner cutting and shoddy construction techniques. Studs in the structure we’re not installed plum or at a uniform distance apart. The concrete slab wasn’t staked properly so it bulges into a secondary room... I could go on but if you made it this far, you probably get the point.